Youngest GMs

 

 

This is a list of the players to become Grandmasters before their fifteenth birthday:

Player	Country	Age
Sergey Karjakin	Ukraine	12 years, 7 months, 0 days
Parimarjan Negi	India	13 years, 4 months, 22 days
Magnus Carlsen	Norway	13 years, 4 months, 27 days
Bu Xiangzhi	China	13 years, 10 months, 13 days
Teimour Radjabov	Azerbaijan	14 years, 0 months, 14 days
Ruslan Ponomariov	Ukraine	14 years, 0 months, 17 days
Wesley So	Philippines	14 years, 1 month, 28 days [1]
Etienne Bacrot	France	14 years, 2 months, 0 days
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	14 years, 4 months [2]
Péter Lékó	Hungary	14 years, 4 months, 22 days
Hou Yifan	China	14 years, 6 months, 16 days[2]
Anish Giri	Russia	14 years, 7 months, 2 days [3]
Yuriy Kuzubov	Ukraine	14 years, 7 months, 12 days [4]